Hypertext Webster Gateway: "contradistinction"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Contradistinction \Con`tra*dis*tinc"tion\, n.
Distinction by contrast.
That there are such things as sins of infirmity in
contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be
questioned. --South.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
contradistinction
n : a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast; "sculpture in
contradistinction to painting"
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